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Have you considered raku? I'm not super familiar with perl but I assumed raku is perl improved
I haven't tried raku TBH, I have only heard about it. Is the syntax is significantly different than Perl?
Yes its a different language by the same creator.
I remember your previous post, congrats on not giving up.
Whipping up a script to solve a very specific problem is super satisfying, but I found that anything you write quickly becomes a liability. Debugging Perl can be super difficult, especially when returning to something you wrote a while back.
Personally I grew tired of the punishment and left it all behind! If I need a quick script I’ll use Python instead, and if it doesn’t work I can use a real debugger to fix it.
In any case it’s always fun learning new things, I hope this experience ends up being useful to you in the future and you get to easily solve a problem that stumps everyone else involved.
Cheers!
Perl is excellent for text manipulation! I use it time from time when I need to do more advanced text manipulation in bash. perl -ne ‘[code goes here]’ is good for making one liners in bash.